The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-17

slipped, the cord close against his neck
Spies did not show tremor, but when
the same process was being carried Out
with Fischer, he turned and quickly
whispered to the bailiff some sug-
gestions concerning fixing the rope.
Fischer's occasional ardor was quite
noticeably lessened when he felt the
hempen strand, and Engel bit his un-
der lip hard when his turn came. Just
then DIR. Murphy, a young physician
standing back of Angel, whisperingly
cracked a joke in Engel's ear. 1ncredi-
bic as it may seem, the low-browed an
archist laughed outright with the rope
around his neck, and while anoth-
er was being fastened on
Parsons by his side, but the
groteSQue laugh stopped in single in
slant and Parsons meekly as saint
cast his eyes upward at the dangling
line above him. Before the anarchists
had an inkling of what was to be done
the white caps were deity slipped upon
their heads and drawn quickly down %
their necks shutting off the view OF
each as completely and with less warn
ing than does the camera cloth of a
photographer. August Spies was the
first of the four doomed men to make
use of his wits while he could and in a
tone of intense bitterness of spirit he
the man who wrote the famous re-
venge circular Kissed out between his
tightly clenched teeth: ''There will
come time when our silence will be
more powerful than the voices they are
RI lngling to death"
The last syllable of Spies had not
reached an end when Engle, raising
his voice, wildly cried, "Hurrah fol-
anarchy!'
Fisher caught the fire of utterance
nV0A offI
rah for anarchy" adding, This is the
happiest moment of my lfe."
Then there was a silence like the
grave, broken abruptly by the slow,
measured information of Parsons, who.
like white robed priest before the al
tar Of sacrifice; not as a dying request,
but rather like command of warning,
he sounded forth,
MAY / be allowed to speakp" Then.
with slow, entreating tone, "Will you
let me speak, Sheriff WatSOn?o
There was another agoniZing pause
and, muffled through the shrOud broke
out in unnatural hollow accents. LET
the voice of the people be HEARD
The crash of the falling platform
Numbered through the corridors, the
slender ropes were taut, and in full
view of the two hundred men in front
were four white, writing shrouds.
All the anarchists died of strangula-
ton. None of their necks were broken.
The four Haymarket murderers had
been literally thrOttled and strangled
by the law.
A FITTING END.
A more striking procession of civic
events may never again be witnessed
than the one having its latest outcome
to-day.
The supposed absurdly theatrical
demonstrations with red banners and
black that took place in the streets OF
Chicago not two winters ago, followed
soon afterward by the picturesque, yet
Ominous, Sunday gatherings OF
tatterdemalions, foreigners and dema-
gogues on the broad common at the
lake front are now recalled as the
quick foIerunnerS of secrete cellar
drillings by hundreds of ignorant
fanatical rifiemen in the purlieus
throughout the city. Then came the
cool, deliberate dynamite experiments
by carefully-seleGted masked rep
resentatives in the woods skiTting the
suburbs. Later on, secluded in the
quiet of downtown back rooms.
DARK CONCLANES
of wild-idead but brainy, unscrupulous
leaders eagerly discussed as their long
coveted opportunity the just-beginning
development of the workingman's con-
certed movement for a uniform eight
hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful strikes
were turned into riots. how the entire
bomb massacre in the HaymaTket, then
the majestic state trial, the amazing
bravadO of one American defendant,
the horribly grotesque marriage of an
other one of the prisonerS-every de-
tail of these strange occurrences and
the extraordinary train succeeding
now presents itself again as if the
whole had passed but yesterday.
The keynote of it all is found in the
platform of
THE MYSTERIOUS /. A. A.
International Arbeiter (Workingmen's
assOciation-of which organization Au'
gust Spies and his seven co-defendants
were leading members and upholders
In the International platform it Is
| urged that 1.-The present system under
which property is owned by individuals
should be destroyed, and that all CAPT
tai which has been produced by labor
should be transformed into common
property by force" Eighty groups
of this dangerous association existed il
the United States, chiefly at the great
industrial centers, Chicago alone being
| the ill-starred poSsessor Of seven. Only
a portion of the members were armed
yet the number of this class in Chicago
exceeded 1000, every man of whom at
tended regular military drills, had his
| own rifle and revolver, and could OBJ
| tain
DYNAMITE AND BOMBS
for the asking. The unarmed mem
bers of the groups were constantly IL
| contact with their armed brethren an(
| in hearty sympathy with their purposes
and their principles. 1t was this com
pact, well-discfplined 1. A. A. thai
| had for its organs three now noted
newspapers-the Arbeiter Zeitung, TIT
Alarm and the Anarchist. Excepting
handsome, youthful Louis Lingg, who
though taking conspicuous part, wa
| a mere acting agent, each OF
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANT
was directly connected with one o
these papers.
August Spies, keen. cynical Hes
l sian, with the subtle intellectual vigOl
of an Iago, was editor-in-chief of thu
i Arbeiter. The jaunty, daredevil httl,
! Texan, Albert r. Parsons, brother of ;
confederate general, presided over thu
George Engel, another Hessian, but o
a coarse, brutal type. out-Heroded tn
most bloOd-thirstY utteranceS OF hi
compeers, while Sam Fielden, the Eng
lishman, sullen-looking, shaggy ant
forbidding, but as an agitator simpl
volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the pol
ished, attractive German-American OF
ganizer. were more especially con
cerned in other than journalist
branches of the propaganda. The
were, nevertheless among the director
respectively of the Alarm and the Al
better Zeitung. The gaunt BavariaI
Michael Schwab, was Spies assistan
editor, and his fellow countrymaI
Adolph Fischer, he of the poisone
dagger, was the Arbeiter's head fort
man.
II Not one of these men-however the
, might split hairs, could candidly den
that he was instrumental to a create
: or less degree in helping on the cata
A trophe at the Haymarket. OF the leg;
> guilt of each nothing need be sal
f further than that its certainty was pI
to tests seldom if ever paralleled.
During the long months precediI
2 the bomb-throwing the defendants OF
: and all were necessarily active in
AGTTATLNG AND ORGANIZING
q in demonstrations" and ''expel
{ ments." Their speeches and articl
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